Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-20
SACRAMENTO, MORNING. DECEMBER

by the rattle of the railway train. To paraphase
poetical expression, may say that the lever
OF the locomotive in the hands of one entirely
fit is mightier than the sword. Many happy
influences are at at work TO consolidate the
American Union, but the railway and telegraph
systems of the United States are more powerful
to this end than all the other influences COM
bined.
State sovereignty, though not dethroned. sits
with iron bands upon its arms, with the light
ming of the telegraph playing around its head,
putting iron into metaphor and it may be said
/ that our country has no NORTH no south, no east
nor west. Steam power tramples under its hot
feet all sections and divisions of country. New
England's factories and the cotton fields of the
South are at each others doors, and New York
! and San Francisco are cooperative members of
municipal union, as well as competitors in
trade. No people of the United States are more
indebted to the railroads and telegraphs for their
prosperity and happiness than the people of the
Pacific coast.
| Judge Williams dwelt at considerable
! length upon the history of the great rail-
! roads on the Pacific coast, beginning with
! the California Central in 1868, and sketch
! ing the several transcontinental lines and
! the Oregon and California. He then gave
| a brief epitome of the slow progress of rail-
roads in Oregon, and spoke OF the COM
| fort and pleasure to be derived from the
| completion of the Oregon and California
road. He concluded:
Could some one gifted with the vision of
! Moses, from another Mount Pisgah, overlook
| these two States, he could see land whose
| riches and beauty beggar the fanciful descrip-
| lions OF romance or poetry-a land whose
mountains TEEN with gold and silver; whose
! bosom IS yariegated with orange groves and
vineyards wheat fields and meadows, fiocks and
| herds, and the grandeur of whose scenery is
| the wonder and admiration of the world.
| Heaven has fixed the elem ments of our future
| greatness in the salubrity and soltness of our
climate. the silver of our mines the fertility of
our soil, and the accessibility of our ports into
which the winds of the Pacific are bound to
wait the wealth of ''Ormus and of Ind.'' Repre-
| sentative men of California are here to-day TO
| lnaugurate this new order of things. They have
| come to celebrate great commercial event
| and visit their new relations. We are here to
meet them and to show our appreciation of their
| kindly presence, and to extend to them our hos
| pltalitles and it has been made my duty, on
behalf of our people-in the performance of
and all of those distinguished guests cordial
and pleasant welcome to the city of Portland.
| Mr.. CRoCKER's SPEECH.
The next speaker was Charles Crocker,
who was received with generous applause.
His speech was much the same as delivered
at points along the line He became quite
| humorous at times, and said that now that
the States were Joined, the California boys
would come up here and court the Oregon
| girls. IL he was younger he would take q
| hand in it.
| GENERAL n. P. CHAPMAN,
| OF Red Bluff delivered an able address on
the new relations between Oregon and Cal
lfornia, showing that the products of the
two States were so different that there was
! no Just reason for unpleasant rivalry.
| OTHER SPEAKERS.
District Attorney Elwood Bruner, of
| Sacramento, followed with d stirring
! speech, that was received with enthusiasm.
Colonel John P. Irish was the next
| speaker. His text was the era of rapid
transit and the coming relations of coun-
tries to each other. He dwelt at length
upon the railroad as the chief agency in
| the development of commerce, and made a
most eloquent presentation of the subject.
Arthur Rogers spoke briefly on Higher
| Education"
Colin NJ. Boyd, representing the Mayor
! of San Francisco expressed for that NUM-
cipality cordial greeting to Portland
Frank NJ. Pixley was too hoarse to speak,
and begged the indulgence of the audience.
Still he said word about The Building
of Nations subject he was down for on
| the programme. He was loudly applauded.
| To-DAY's FESTIVITIES.
| At 9 o'clock tomorrow morning the
Portland people will give The visitors a
steamboat excursion to the Cascades. The
| train leaves for California on Wednesday
| at IL A. M.